🎯 Higher Order Brain Functions

Language, Memory & Lateralization

🧠↔️🧠 Cerebral Lateralization

🧠⬅️ Left Hemisphere

🗣️ Language & Speech
📝 Reading & Writing
🔢 Math & Logic
📊 Analytical
➡️ Controls Right Body

🧠➡️ Right Hemisphere

🎨 Spatial Processing
🎵 Music & Art
😊 Facial Recognition
🧩 Holistic/Gestalt
⬅️ Controls Left Body
🗣️ Language Processing
👂 Hear Speech Auditory Input
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🧠 Wernicke's Comprehension
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🔗 Arcuate Fasciculus
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🗣️ Broca's Production
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🎤 SPEAK! Motor Output
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⚠️ Broca's Aphasia Can't Produce
⚠️ Wernicke's Aphasia Can't Understand
✂️ Split-Brain Studies
✂️ Commissurotomy Cut Corpus Callosum
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⬅️👁️ Left Visual → Right Brain
👁️➡️ Right Visual → Left Brain
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❤️ HEART Test "HE" spoken | "ART" pointed
💾 Memory Systems
💾 MEMORY
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Sensory Milliseconds
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📝 Short-Term Seconds-Minutes
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📚 Long-Term Permanent
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📖 Declarative Facts/Events
🚴 Procedural Skills/Habits
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📅 Episodic Personal Events
📗 Semantic General Facts
🧠 Memory Brain Areas
🌊 Hippocampus Memory Formation
🔺 Amygdala Emotional Memory
🧠 Prefrontal Working Memory
🏀 Cerebellum Motor Memory
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⚠️ Hippocampal Damage → Severe Amnesia (H.M.)
🔄 Brain Plasticity & Neurogenesis
🌱 Neurogenesis New Neurons!
🔗 Synaptogenesis New Connections
💪 LTP Strengthen Paths
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🎻 Experience Changes Brain
🏠 Enrichment More Dendrites
📚 Learning 2000 cells/hr
✋ Handedness & Lateralization
🫱 Right-Handed 92% Left Language
🫲 Left-Handed 70% Left Language
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💉 WADA Test Determines Language Side
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